After last year’s Byron Writers Festival was washed out, it was time to put the thinking caps on and work out a new plan – in this climate-impacted world how do you put a festival on that minimises the risk of it happening again?
Have you ever heard of Latham’s snipe? Better still, have you ever seen one? These secretive, well camouflaged, medium-sized wading birds grace us with their presence here in Byron Shire between August and February.
Concerns are being raised around the NSW Labor government plans to close all Community Justice Centres in June.
A distressed Ocean Shores resident contacted The Echo last week, saying they walked their dogs in an area that had been sprayed by herbicide.
With a recent Echo advertisement offering ‘ten legal house sites soon to be available’ at a property in Main Arm, The Echo sought clarity around the estate.
Mullumbimby Uniting Church Food Box have commenced their 13th year of operations, distributing nutritious food to those in need every Thursday, from 9.30am till 11.30am.
Despite the Law Council of Australia raising serious concerns over risks to freedom of political speech, federal parliament has passed a new hate crime law that will see jail time for publicly displaying prohibited Nazi symbols or giving a Nazi salute.
Local filmmaker, David Bradbury, says he will run against PM Anthony Albanese in his safe Sydney seat of Grayndler as an independent at the upcoming federal election.
To stir up or provoke to action. New laws to criminalise incitement and hate speech have just been made. The fact that government supports (the manufacturers) making weapons and systems that kill people, and sells or gives weapons to Ukraine...
I can see it 50 years from now, Trump Tower, the tallest building on Earth, a giant gold-plated phallus rising hundreds of meters from what was Southern Gaza, renamed Trumpopolis. The Benjamin Netanyahu Memorial Gardens sprawl hundreds of hectares into...
I’m Louis and I’m ten years old. I love the Byron Farmers Market and have been going all my life. As mentioned in a previous Echo, (January 29) a major storm recently blustered its way through the Shire, and the...
Given the content of Mandy’s story about her parents’ Vietnamese ‘intruder,’ I’d love to have had the opportunity to retitle her story, ‘Empathy, Kindness, and Love.’ Truly inspiring. Raphael Lee Cass, Byron Bay
Elite adaptive surfers from across Australia, and around the world, are set to return to Byron Bay from March 23 to 30, and showcase their skill and determination.
Sports Medicine Australia (SMA) has launched a nationwide campaign to help coaches, teachers and sport medicine professionals safely manage the 100,000 sport-related concussions in Australia each year.
The launch of the North-East Tennis League is an exciting new inter-club competition designed to strengthen local tennis communities, foster affordable play, and create vital development pathways for junior players.
An eight-a-side competition is starting for under 10s in mid-February, with five teams from NSW far north towns such as Ballina, Lennox Head, Bangalow and Alstonville.
Local domestic family violence and homelessness have clear links, according to the manager of the Women’s Resource Service, Ambyr Johnston.
As a member of the small niche independent media landscape, The Echo is acutely aware that this job is not just being a journal of public record, but a reporter on how governments behave. And treat us.
Members of the public are being sought to help their communities at the Bangalow and Byron Bay Fire Stations, with paid positions on offer for on-call firefighters.
Three years ago my town of Mullumbimby, and many other towns in the Northern Rivers, flooded. That’s not news to most, but it was news that three years later, just last week, Justine Elliot had come to town to...
A contingent of the Byron Tri Club joined 600 other competitors in Pottsville last weekend for the 2025 Tweed Enduro.
It feels to me like Sam Kerr is really being pursued and prosecuted for being famous, female, and not white.
Concerns that residents of the Mullumbimby pod houses are about to be evicted have been quashed by NSW Reconstruction Authority
Wallum protector, Maria Lloyd, faced Byron Bay Local Court last Tuesday following an incident in June last year at the contested 126-housing unit urban development in Bayside, Brunswick Heads.
It’s appalling how incompetent Telstra is! I had far better mobile phone reception at my home in Montecollum when I bought it 30 years ago, long before 3G, 4G and 5G. I’ve had far better mobile phone and internet connection...
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